1891 census for Bayliss of Queenhill Worcs

[Tomwales]

Hi Linda, I've been looking through some photo's today and guess what I found a couple of Rose, plus one which says on the back Rose's baby being held by her sister, so this must be Richard!! Would be glad to send you copies if you would like them, but unsure how to do this safely without you revealing your address  on line, any ideas??
Tom

[Linda-D]

Hi Tom,

How exciting is that!!! Have private messaged you my email address and would love to see whatever you can send me.

This is the icing on the cake today because I've found evidence of a marriage in Paris for another of my relatives that I'd been searching for ages.  Their first child had been born there but I had been unable to find their wedding and it was only luck that I found a website with the details.  ...and now photos of Rose and possibly Richard!

Happy, happy regards,
Linda

[Tomwales]

Hi Linda, glad you are making progress in your searches. I am sorry to tell you I haven't got a clue how to send photo's via e mail, in fact we don't use our e mail facility, so we don't receive junk mail, sorry to be so behind the times!!! Just tried to e mail you but didn't get very far, so have to reply via this site. Is there any way I can send you copies of the photo's, perhaps you have a small local post office that I could send them to for your collection, or do you have any other ideas? I bet anyone reading this will be   ;D
Tom

[Linda-D]

No problem at all Tom.  I will private message you my address - I don't mind you having it at all.  I have friends that are very cautious about what they put on-line but I'm afraid I get a little blasé at times although I hope I don't live to regret it!  Let me know when you get to send them so I can look out for the post lady ;-).

[Tomwales]

Will get them copied tomorrow and will post on Thursday, you should recieve them Friday with a bit of luck. My wife used to live about 50 miles from you before she moved to Wales. Bye for now.
Tom

[udolpho]

Hello Linda D,

I am researching Colonel Robert Kelly of the East India Company and his family because of their connection to Isabella Fordyce who married Colonel Robert Kelly's first son Robert Hawke Kelly in 1789 and became a Gothic novelist. Hastings Montague Kelly, the gr.gr.grandfather mentioned, was a younger brother of Robert Hawke Kelly. If you have any information on the Kellys from Ireland, please let me know. ...And are you by any chance Linda M. D....n, whose name I found on another site?

[udolpho]

Re: Hastings Montague Kelly/Emily Kelly

...and I have never heard of one Emily Kelly as being one of Hastings Montague's sisters. The children of his father Colonel Robert Kelly I could find are: Robert Hawke (c. 1759-c.1807); George Robert Abraham  (c.1773-1818) and Myra (1782-1854).

[Linda-D]

Hi Udolpho,

You are right.  I made a mistake.  Emily Kelly is the daughter of Hastings, not his sister.  Thank you for pointing it out.  ...and yes, I am probably the Linda MD from elsewhere.  I've quite a lot of information on the Kellys, although mainly found on-line and in the British Library, and from other researchers that I've been in contact wth.  There are a lot of us out there looking at the Kellys.  Do you want to contact me directly?  I will PM my email address as we may be able to share information here.  I have a tree on Ancestry but I keep it private as the source information for some of my facts is vague.

Regards,

[udolpho]

Hi Linda,

thanks a lot, I am so glad you responded. I have been researching Isabella Kelly, née Fordyce, wife of Robert Hawke Kelly, for years because she is my favourite Gothic novelist (I am a scholar of the Gothic from Germany), and yes, I would very much like to share finds with you, though I am afraid that I may profit much more from your sources than you from mine. Anyway, there are so many errors concerning the Fordyce/Kelly circle online which i find quite misleading. family search for example lists George Robert Abraham as Isabella Kelly's husband obviously copied from Howard's Visitation of Ireland vol. 5 (1911). And of course you know about  the mystery surrounding the Kelly fortune and the question why Robert Hawke, the first-born, was excluded, and what part the Hawke circle played. In her letters to the RLF Isabella Kelly is very vague, and to make matters worse, the crucial page seems to be missing. Robert's second name Hawke seems to indicate that his father may even have had a liaison with a lady of the Hawke family. Given that Colonel Robert Kelly's wife Miriam (no maiden name given) died in 1837 in Madras, India. Since Robert Hawke was born abt. 1759, this would mean that he was born abt 78 years earlier and that Miriam (if she was his mother) must have died at a very advanced age and gave birth to Robert Hawke when she was probably under 20. Or was Miriam's maiden name Hawke?
To sum it up, yes, by all means, let's continue this in private.